Benny Green Quotes

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

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• All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • Marketing
  • Advertising

• One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Want
  • Getting Older

• I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Think

• People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • People
  • Need
  • Seem

• I don't think things have changed for me. Yes, I got a big contract, but my focus is still the same.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Focus
  • Things
  • Changed

• That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • People
  • Again
  • Public Domain

• The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, 'When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.'

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Great
  • Best
  • Baby

• It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for spending money on you.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Money
  • Song
  • You

• Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Theatre
  • Agree
  • Absurd

• With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Music
  • Powerful
  • Sad

• I'm a very strong person, and I think that's why, actually, I find it really infuriating when I read, 'She had a nervous breakdown' or 'She's not very mentally stable, just a weak, frail little creature.'

  

  Kate Bush
  • Why
  • She
  • Think

• I fought for a long time on 'Battlestar' to let my hair grow out. It was very frustrating because every single person on the show was changing their hair. It was not fair.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Time
  • Long
  • Single

• When you're nursing and you're working 18-hour days, that's pretty hard.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Working

• Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Good
  • Choice

• Corruption is rife in the Muslim world, and when it is coupled with the marginalization of religion, it manifests itself as frustration and becomes a fertile recruiting ground for extremism.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • World
  • Religion
  • Frustration

• The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • May
  • Home

• I'm proud of my office. I'm proud of the work that we do.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Work
  • Proud
  • Office

• I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Lot
  • Western
  • Influences

• You can love me or hate me and disagree with me, but you sure as hell know where I stand.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Know

• I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • Up
  • Real
  • Light

• When I'm interested in a man I don't tell him outright. Instead I bite my lower lip, look him in the eye and then shyly turn away.

  

  Karen McDougal
  • Eye
  • Turn Away
  • Shyly

• I feel a huge responsibility to anyone who's younger than me, in helping them take the road less traveled, or finding no road at all and blazing a new trail.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Responsibility
  • Feels
  • Helping

• I think that it's fear. The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions. If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Lose
  • Afraid
  • Musicians

• A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

  

  Benny Green